C08 - [IN-PERSON ONLY] Incentive Structures in Research: When the Conflict Is Inside the Building

This session is being held in-person only at PRIMR23. It will not be recorded for on-demand access or for the PRIMR23/SBER23 Virtual Meeting.

The research community has had endless conversations about the importance of identification and management of conflict of interest (COI). Financial and leadership conflicts show up across the spectrum, from individual investigator conflicts to complex conflicts involving transnational or entrepreneurial relationships, as well as on conference agendas with varying degrees of regularity. Nonetheless, we still have scandals regarding COI ripped from the headlines. What are we missing? Why are conflicts, financial, leadership, or other circumstances still causing so many identification and management problems at all levels of the research enterprise? What do we do when the institution itself has a conflict related to a study, a research program, or an entrepreneurial partnership? How do we think about conflict and mitigation when the IRB may benefit from approval of research? This session will explore how the research incentive structure itself causes all types of conflict, and ways we have to move forward to a less conflicted research endeavor.